I don't understand why they don't put some kind of fail-safe on the console. Nice bit of code tucked away that doesn't get written to, failed firmware update and it falls back and asks for usb stick or similar with the update on it. Something like bootmii, but automatic. Sure turning off during an update is stupid, but people do stupid things.

I don't understand why they don't put some kind of fail-safe on the console. Nice bit of code tucked away that doesn't get written to, failed firmware update and it falls back and asks for usb stick or similar with the update on it. Something like bootmii, but automatic. Sure turning off during an update is stupid, but people do stupid things.

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Security. If you can update your boot code you can fix flaws, That being said, they could've implemented a system where it stores the recovery section twice or thrice and overwrites them one by one, but whatever. There might even be a special way to recover it that only Ninty knows about.

I don't understand why they don't put some kind of fail-safe on the console. Nice bit of code tucked away that doesn't get written to, failed firmware update and it falls back and asks for usb stick or similar with the update on it. Something like bootmii, but automatic. Sure turning off during an update is stupid, but people do stupid things.

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Everything depends on how much you can cut down the firmware - the "fail safe" would have to take a minimal amount of space while not restricting update functionality. If that portion of the OS is huge or for some reason cannot work by itself, this may or may not be feasable.

And here I was thinking someone tried something really stupid while trying to hack the thing, but nope just a guy who wasn't very smart. I know the wii tells you to do a lot of stupid things but when it tells you not to turn it off you best listen.

"I only waited 15 mins but that's the pace it was going at on the progress bar. And there was no "cancel" option."

so he powered it off LOL
what a retard

also hes claiming it was 5GB
really 5GB in 15min is impressive because I'm sure the Nintendo servers aren't busy at the moment and it would have had to have actively been flashing to console if it's now bricked

now he's complaining that the signal on them is bad because his remote pad won't connect
WELL DUH! if the firmware is dud then it has got corrupted files